Happy Rosh Hashanah

It’s the Jewish New Year! Happy Rosh Hashanah!
On one of the music stations (I forget which one, even though I’ve been watching it), they’ve declared it “RUSH Hashanah” and they’re playing a bunch of concerts and videos by Canadian power-trio Rush for 24 hours. Which brings me to a fairly embarrassing realization…
Somehow, I had no [...]

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I’m doing an entire post about…

…the new Metallica record, “Death Magnetic.”
Okay. I haven’t liked a Metallica record in ten years. “Black Album” was okay, but not great. I could have LIVED with it if they’d continued down that road…but I still didn’t love it. “Load” was aptly named. “Re-Load” was re-aptly named. “St. Anger” was a freaking joke–nu metal with [...]

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All I Want from George W. Bush

I just want ONE meeting.
I want to sit across from him at a table with loads of secret-service agents around, in a well-lighted room with many exits, so he feels safe. Then I want to talk, on behalf of essentially the working poor, and I want him to listen. That’s all I want.
I won’t yell. [...]

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OMG – Head for the hills and take your money and guns with you!!!

I had no idea. I really didn’t.
If you listened to the address George W. Bush gave the other night, you–much like myself–must have been shocked to find out that apparently this country’s in a major economic crisis! How did this happen?!? It’s sure news to me. Apparently it’s gotten so bad that the GOVERNMENT actually [...]

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For the Record… (Pun Unintended)

Just in case anyone was wondering what my time/effort-level in relationship to Blue Tattoo adds up to… Here’s a list of stuff I regularly do and/or contribute for the band:

I write all of the music (or high 90-percentile, since I mainly do the melodies, and the specifics of the other parts are left up [...]

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